Guide for making lace and the like



No 24, 1 3 A. B. COLLINGBOURNE 2,061,612

GUIDE FDR MAKING LACE AND THE LIKE Filed March 30, 1955 Patented Nov. 24, 1936 UNITED STATS ATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to a guide for making lace and more particularly to an adjustable guide which may be used for lace making and for holding yarn while it is being stitched by a sewing machine to a foundation pattern.

The device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive, adjustable as to width, and provided with means for maintaining a uniform width from end to end of the guide.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a guide for making lace and the like, embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In that embodiment of my invention shown in the drawing, flat, relatively thin side bars are indicated at it and H, respectively. These may be made of metal or other suitable material. Each of said bars is preferably bent near one end, as indicated at I? in Fig. 2.

An end piece It is provided for engaging the ends of the side bars ill and l I, and a similar end piece it for the opposite ends of the two bars. Each of the end pieces 53 and I4 is made of a fiat piece of metal bent between its ends at [5 and i6 (Fig. 3) to form ends ll parallel with and slightly spaced from the part 18 of each end piece. The portion is is provided with indentations is arranged in two rows, the indentations of one row being aligned with those of the other, and each pair of aligned indentations being spaced from an adjacent pair and from the side walls of the end pieces a distance sufficient to accommodate the side bars in any of the spaces indicated at 29 in Fig. 3 or in the locations they occupy in the drawing. The dotted lines in Fig. 1 indicate how the side bars may be moved to adjust the width of the guide.

The end pieces l3 and [4 are removable for the purpose of adjusting the positions of the side bars and also for the purpose of slipping the finished lace off the side bars at one end of the device.

The bend l2 in the bars ill and H results in the end piece M being located at an angle to the body of the device and enables the user conveniently to hold and move the guide when it is resting on a foundation pattern on a sewing machine for stitching the yarn on the guide to the pattern.

Changes may be made in details of construction without departing from the scope of my invention and I do not intend to be limited to the exact form shown and described, except as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A guide for making hairpin lace and the like comprising a pair of separate side bars about which loops of thread are slidably arranged, and two separate end pieces detachably engaging the ends of the side bars, each end piece consisting of a strip bent upon itself and forming parallel arms, and having projections on the strip dividing the space between the arms into a plurality of spaces, the ends of the side bars being frictionally engaged in adjusted positions between said arms and projections.

2. A guide for making hairpin lace and the like comprising a pair of separate side bars about which loops of thread are slidably arranged, and

two separate end pieces detachably engaging the ends of the side bars, each end piece consisting of a strip bent upon itself and forming parallel arms, and having projections on the strip dividing the space between the arms into a plurality of spaces,

the ends of the side bars being frictionally engaged in adjusted positions between said arms and projections, the side bars being bent near one end adjacent the inner edge of one end piece.

ALBERT B. COLLINGBOURNE. 

